Slim Harpo Barbara May Bernhardt builds on the success of

builds on the success of her first book

his desire to build

Young Learners

'Get big or get out' is perhaps the counter mantra of this collection as the struggle to find sufficiency in being small and unprofitable defines the lived experience of farming

and take on the bombings and arson cases that most officers of the law wrote off as impossible to solve

Slim Harpo Barbara May Bernhardt builds on the success ofAs Louis Armstrong forever tethered jazz to New Orleans and Clifton Chenier fixed Lafayette as home to zydeco, Slim Harpo established Baton Rouge as a base for the blues. In the only complete biography of this internationally renowned blues singer and musician, Martin Hawkins traces Harpo's rural upbringing near Louisiana's capital, his professional development fostered by the local music scene, and his national success with R&B hits like Rainin' in